Blog Cardiac Arrest Dysrhythmia 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
See this post: How a pause can cause cardiac arrest 2. Because she has cardiomyopathy and ventricular dysrhythmias, the pacer included an Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) Echo 6 days later after CRT: Normal estimated left ventricular ejection fraction. The plan: 1. Place temporary pacemaker 3.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
He had multiple cardiac arrests with ROSC regained each time. Then there is loss of pulses with continued narrow complex on the monitor ("PEA arrest") Learning Points: Sudden witnessed Cardiac Arrest due to ACS is almost always due to dysrhythmia. This patient arrested shortly after hospital arrival.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 28, 2013
Day 5 this was recorded: Still a hint of Brugada in V1 One month later: Normalized When the patient awoke, he and his family reported a family history of close relatives with cardiac arrest of uncertain etiology. The patient himself had never had syncope or dysrhythmias. If not, then avoidance of the TCA would be enough.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 8, 2016
Could the dysrhythmias have been prevented? If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 Severe hypokalemia in the setting of STEMI or dysrhythmias is life-threatening and needs very rapid treatment.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
So the real QT is shorter, but the computer does not mention the U-wave, and the U-wave is as important as the T-wave in predicting cardiac dysrhythmias. If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 22, 2023
There were no dysrhythmias on cardiac monitor during observation. This discussion comes from this previous post: Hyperthermia and ST Elevation Discussion Brugada Type 1 ECG changes are associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the occurrence of ventricular dysrhythmias. He was found to be influenza positive.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2019
If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., Here is another post on hypoK: Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG In this post, I discussed another patient I took care of : Prehospital Cardiac Arrest due to Hypokalemia I recently had a case of prehospital cardiac arrest that turned out to be due to hypokalemia.
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